Creamy Peppadew pasta with watercress and pine nuts
Helloooo, creamy pasta! Was there ever a more beautiful sight? Red roses and sunsets have nothing on a plate of pasta coated in a glossy, creamy sauce. Even better, a sauce that’s packed with garlic, spicy Peppadew peppers and parsley. This creamy Peppadew pasta may well be the best thing on Earth (apart from cute puppies).
As with any good pasta dish, this recipe is super quick – the sauce comes together in the time it takes to say ‘hey look, I made sauce!’ (assuming you speak fairly slowly).
Just add some garlic and those sweet and spicy Peppadews to a mini food processor, along with a few sprigs of fresh parsley, and give it a good blitz. Add some cream cheese and a little dollop of Greek yogurt, and there’s your sauce! This time I used the hot Peppadews – with the creamy sauce to cool them down, it was just perfect. Feel free to use the milder Peppadews though, if you prefer.
I also added a handful of watercress and some pine nuts to my creamy Peppadew pasta. You could use spinach or rocket (arugula) too, or whatever else you happen to have on hand – I’m all for a good fridge clearing dinner. The pine nuts add a nice bit of crunch, but also have a surprising amount of flavour, so don’t skip them!
Overall, this recipe offers everything you could ever want in a pasta dish – spiciness, sweetness, creaminess, tanginess, crunch… I could go on. The fact that it only takes about 15 minutes to make is just the icing on the pasta.
If you want to give this Peppadew pasta recipe a go, Peppadew® products are stocked in Waitrose, Tesco, Morrisons,
Creamy Peppadew pasta with watercress and pine nuts
Ingredients
- 300 g pasta (~ 10 1/2 oz) - I used farfalle
- 1 clove garlic, peeled
- pieces ~ 7 hot Peppadew piquante peppers
- A few sprigs fresh parsley
- 1/2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 2 tbsp cream cheese
- 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
- Salt
- Black pepper
- 1 handful fresh watercress
- 3 tbsp pine nuts
Instructions
- Boil the pasta in plenty of water until cooked al dente (around 12-15 minutes).
- Meanwhile, add the peeled garlic clove to a mini food processor, along with the Peppadews and fresh parsley. Blitz until roughly chopped.
- Add the lemon juice, cream cheese, Greek yogurt, and a generous amount of salt and pepper. Blitz again to produce a fairly smooth sauce (a few lumps are okay!).
- When the pasta is cooked, drain it, and add the sauce, the watercress, and the pine nuts. Mix well to combine. Place over a low heat for a minute or two, stirring constantly, to heat through, then serve.
Note: Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on exactly what ingredients you choose.
If you love Peppadews, you have to try them on pizza! They’re so good on my spicy butternut squash pizza with crispy kale:
My son loves Pasta. Your recipe seems delicious. Am going to prepare for him.
Hi! It’s pleasing to know that Creamy Peppadew Pasta can be prepared so quickly. Including garlic, Peppadew, watercress, and pine nuts must be making it spicy, tangy, and sweet as well. The great thing is it can be cooked in just 15 minutes and served in 20 minutes. It is a veggie food so it’s good for all.
Oh that sounds wonderful Becca. Pasta is so useful and so easy, I reckon I could eat it pretty much every day and not get fed up with it.
I’m the same, there’s no end to the kinds of sauces you could use, so I’d never get bored :)
I love peppadews but never bought them myself to cook with at home. Pasta is my go to dish because I’m quite lazy so I’d love to try this out!
Yummy recipe for pasta lovers! I will definitely try this in the next weekned!
This looks great, I just turned pescatarian 3 months ago, this is a good addition for the recipe.
Oh such a simple yet warming dish, can’t wait to try it out myself!
I love peppadew peppers, I’m guilty of eating them straight from the jar too. Whilst the pasta sounds amazing, that butternut squash pizza at the end looks incredible too. x
This looks and sounds great. I’d never heard of Pepperdew before!
They’re amazing, you have to hunt them down! :)
Looks great, it really shows you that veggie food doesn’t have to be boring x
The entire family love pasta, and peppadews are one of my favourites so this sounds perfect and the fact it can be made so quickly, perfect!
Loving this pasta dish Becca and I know my verging towards veggie daughter would love it in particular:-)
Ooh is she verging towards veggie?!
I could live on pasta alone, I just love it! This looks delicious
What a delicious looking pasta, I have not tried peppadew brand but I will check out Asda for it.
You definitely have to check them out – once you start using them in recipes you’ll become obsessed! :)
Jarred roast peppers are such a good cupboard or fridge standby for meals. I use them a lot. Nice recipe. It would do me fine for lunch *tummy rumbles*. Stumbled, pinned, yummed and tweeted.
I’d love to give this a go because it sounds delicious but I’m not a huge fan of parsley at all. Are there any other herbs you would recommend using? Thanks in advance.
Basil would be great too! :)
Ooo this sounds yummy I love pasta dishes and I love peppers so an all round winner for me x
I will defiantly be trying this…so simple yet elegant.Thanks for sharing
Mmm, I’d love to make this delicious pasta. That spicy sweet combo sounds really good to me right now.
Speaking of cute puppies ( which you did) how about a couple of pics of your puppy dog!
Haha! I’ll try to remember to include a couple in my email newsletter this month, and in my round-up on the 1st of next month ;)
This sounds so tasty, may be something I need to try soon
LOVE peppadews! Love this pasta and that pizza looks amazing too :-)
This is definitely my kind of pasta dish, I love how simple and easy it is to make too! x
I love pasta dishes and you flavour combination here sounds great although I would use wholemeal instead of white pasta.
That would be really yummy too!
Oh yum this sounds absolutely delicious. I have to I do love pasta dishes and love trying new ones. I shall have to add this to my list. x
That looks and sounds so delicious. Will have to keep your sauce recipe in mind as im not very good at making sauces.
It’s so easy, everyone would be good at this! :)
Wow, this looks amazing. I’m always looking for new pasta recipes.
I love water cress, and pasta, yet would of never thought off combining them! Will give this a shot.. My slow cooker dinner doesn’t seem as appealing now!
yummy! I can have this pasta right now for dinner!
This looks like the perfect summer pasta!
This looks amazing. And only 15 minutes? Sold! I love the microgreens on top – so pretty.
This looks like such a simple sauce that’s packed with flavor! I love the idea of the hot peppers and cool creaminess combined – looks great :)
I could do with a bowl of this right this minute, looks lovely!
I love Peppadew their stuff are really good. Love the idea of adding pine nuts to pasta
Pasta just has to be creamy! It’s such a comforting dish to eat.
I love a good ‘fridge clearout’ dinner too, and this one looks amazing.
It looks so creamy and naughty I thought it was going to be filled with double cream and piles of cheese (not that I’d complain :-)). Great idea for a lighter-but-still-creamy pasta dinner!
Yeah it’s actually not as unhealthy as it could have been!
I love the balance of hot/creamy in this recipe. I haven’t seen hot peppadews yet but I shall seek them out!
Yummy, I could definitely eat this for lunch, I love those peppadew peppers. I usually end up wolfing them straight from the jar so next time I buy some I’m going to use them in a recipe!
To be fair they’re pretty great straight from the jar ;) I often put them on salads whole, but it’s nice to use them in a bit more of an inventive way sometimes!
This looks so pretty – I bet those peppers make it so tasty too. I usually go for the mild ones, but in this the hotter ones might be needed for enough of a kick. I can’t wait to try this.
The hotter ones are great in this because they’re cooled off by the creamy sauce :)